| Rank of market by headcount |
1 |
| # of lawyers working at NLJ 500 offices in this market |
28,192 |
| # of NLJ 500 offices in this market |
259 |
| % of all NLJ 500 lawyers working in this market |
15.0% |
| Average Headcount of NLJ 500 offices in this market |
109 |
| % change in size in NLJ 500 firms |
4.3% |
| Rank in market |
Law Firm |
Total lawyers |
| 1 |
Kirkland & Ellis |
842 |
| 2 |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
803 |
| 3 |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
782 |
| 4 |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
735 |
| 5 |
Latham & Watkins |
717 |
| 6 |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
650 |
| 7 |
Debevoise & Plimpton |
648 |
| 8 |
Sullivan & Cromwell |
535 |
| 9 |
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson |
493 |
| 10 |
Milbank |
481 |
| 11 |
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher |
454 |
| 12 |
Ropes & Gray |
453 |
| 13 |
Sidley Austin |
448 |
| 14 |
Cravath, Swaine & Moore |
448 |
| 15 |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton |
429 |
| 16 |
Goodwin Procter |
388 |
| 17 |
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan |
384 |
| 18 |
Proskauer Rose |
376 |
| 19 |
Paul Hastings |
321 |
| 20 |
Greenberg Traurig |
320 |
| 21 |
Schulte Roth & Zabel |
317 |
| 22 |
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer |
292 |
| 23 |
Dechert |
269 |
| 24 |
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel |
261 |
| 25 |
Cahill Gordon & Reindel |
261 |
| NLJ 500 firms with their largest office in this market |
| Akerman |
| Akin |
| Baker & Hostetler |
| Boies Schiller Flexner |
| Brown Rudnick |
| Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft |
| Cahill Gordon & Reindel |
| Carter Ledyard & Milburn |
| Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton |
| Cohen & Gresser |
| Cooley |
| Cravath, Swaine & Moore |
| Cullen and Dykman |
| Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle |
| Davis & Gilbert |
| Davis Polk & Wardwell |
| Debevoise & Plimpton |
| Dechert |
| DLA Piper |
| Ellenoff Grossman & Schole |
| Epstein Becker & Green |
| FisherBroyles |
| Fox Rothschild |
| Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy |
| Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz |
| Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson |
| Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher |
| Greenberg Traurig |
| Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach |
| Herrick Feinstein |
| Hughes Hubbard & Reed |
| Jones Day |
| Kasowitz Benson Torres |
| Kelley Drye & Warren |
| Kirkland & Ellis |
| Kobre & Kim |
| Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel |
| Labaton Sucharow |
| Latham & Watkins |
| Loeb & Loeb |
| McLaughlin & Stern |
| Milbank |
| Morrison Cohen |
| Moses & Singer |
| Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass |
| Norton Rose Fulbright |
| Olshan Frome Wolosky |
| Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe |
| Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler |
| Paul Hastings |
| Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
| Proskauer Rose |
| Pryor Cashman |
| Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan |
| Reed Smith |
| Ropers Majeski |
| Rosenberg & Estis |
| Schulte Roth & Zabel |
| Selendy Gay Elsberg |
| Seward & Kissel |
| Shearman & Sterling |
| Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton |
| Sidley Austin |
| Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
| Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
| Sullivan & Cromwell |
| Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
| Weitz & Luxenberg |
| White & Case |
| Willkie Farr & Gallagher |
| Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker |
| Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf |
| Wood Smith Henning & Berman |
| Tarter Krinsky & Drogin |
